Seven years ago, Securitize was a startup pitching Wall Street on an idea most banks weren’t ready to hear: that financial assets could live on a blockchain. Today, it’s a publicly traded company with BlackRock as its most prominent validator and billions of dollars in tokenized assets under its management infrastructure.
From transfer agent to NYSE-listed company
Securitize’s most consequential partnership is with BlackRock, which selected the firm as transfer agent for its BUIDL fund when the product launched on March 20, 2024. The BUIDL fund, a tokenized money market product, now holds between $2.2B and $2.5B in assets under management across Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche.
Securitize extended that momentum in July 2026, completing a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II and beginning to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ. The deal raised roughly $400M in gross proceeds. In a move that was equal parts symbolic and strategic, Securitize tokenized between $295M and $300M of its own common stock as part of the transaction.
The infrastructure layer of a $37B market
